Issue / Traffic Safety
Would the DRIVE Act Spend Federal Funds More Effectively?
Jul 29, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONIt has been six years since the transportation community had the opportunity to mull over a six-year transportation bill written by a...
House’s FY 2016 USDOT Appropriations Bill Cuts Discretionary Spending, Freezes Major HTF Accounts; Bans Some Cuba Travel
Apr 28, 2015 | Jeff DavisApril 28, 2015 The House Appropriations Committee released the full text of the proposed Transportation-Housing appropriations bill...
The Transportation President
Apr 01, 2015 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONDespite the fact that we are about 600 days away from the actual election, another Presidential campaign is underway. While this could...
White House Transmits New GROW AMERICA Bill to Congress
Mar 30, 2015 | Jeff DavisMarch 30, 2015 Today, the Obama Administration transmitted the 2015 version of its GROW AMERICA surface transportation reauthorization...
FHWA’s 2013 Research Report On Digital Billboard (CEVMS) – Seriously Flawed
Jan 19, 2015 | Jerry WachtelBackground Three decades after the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) 1980 study about the safety impacts of roadside digital...
Time for Autonomous Vehicles to Disrupt Transportation Planning
Dec 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY MARK McDOWELL Transportation Consultant Over the coming decades autonomous vehicles (AVs) will insinuate themselves into our...
Overview of Final FY 2015 USDOT Appropriations
Dec 09, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 9, 2014 – 9:05 p.m. Initial overview. The omnibus package will take the form of a House amendment to the Senate...
Congress Returns For Hectic Final Session
Dec 02, 2014 | Jeff DavisDecember 2, 2014 – 11:00 A.M. As Congress returns from the Thanksgiving recess to face what is supposed to be the last two weeks...
President Nominates NHTSA, STB Heads
Nov 20, 2014 | Jeff DavisNovember 20, 2014 As the USDOT nomination backlog at the White House builds, President Obama in recent days has nominated a new head...
Federal funding for highways is stagnant and the Federal Aid Highway Program (FAHP) appears to be “shrinking by default.” Transportation infrastructure is not a top 10 public polling issue. Highway conditions have improved and there is little “inside the beltway” dialogue on transportation infrastructure. Meanwhile, popular discussion of mobility is more focused on new vehicle technology than on highway infrastructure.
Oct 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY STEVE LOCKWOOD Senior Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff A New Context for the FAHP? In the absence of Congressional action,...
Improving Transportation Performance: Time to Focus on Operations
Sep 25, 2014 | ENO CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATIONCongress has been able to accomplish very little this year, but one thing they agreed they needed to do was avoid insolvency in the...
Countdown to Mainstreaming of Self-Driving Vehicles
May 25, 2014 | Carter TempletonBY EVA LERNER-LAM President, Palisades Consulting Group, Inc. There is a lot of excitement today about the concept of so-called...